F.Y.B.A.
OPTIONAL ENGLISH
PAPER I
Introduction to Literature
© UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
Dr. Rajan Welukar Dr. Naresh Chandra Vice Chancellor Pro -Vice Chancellor University of Mumbai University of Mumbai Fort, Mumbai-400032. Fort, Mumbai-400032. Dr . Dhaneshwar Harichandan Professor-cum-Director Institute of Distance and Open Learning University of Mumbai
Programme Co-ordinator : Mr. Santosh Rathod Assistant Professor IDOL, University of Mumbai. Course Co-ordinator : Dr. K. H. Pawar
Course Writers : Dr. K. H. Pawar, M. D. College, Parel, Mumbai. Mr. Yogesh Annekar, Khalsa College, Matunga, Mumbai. Dr. Savita Patil, Elphinstone College, Fort, Mumbai. Dr. Shivaji Sargar, Head, Dept. of English, Veer Wajekar Arts, Science & Commerce College, Phunde, Dist., Raigad. Dr. Shobha Mukharji, Khalsa College, Matunga, Mumbai.
July 2012 F.Y.B.A. – Optional English Paper I : Introduction to Literature
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FYBA OPTIONAL ENGLISH INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
SYLLABUS (to be implemented from 2011-2012 onwards)
Objectives of the Course 1) To introduce the learners of literature to the various genres and literary terms 2) To sensitize them to themes and styles of literature 3) To inculcate reading skills and the reading habit in them 4) To enhance their vocabulary, style and language skills by introducing them to literary works 5) To nourish their creative faculty and to develop sensitivity to nature and fellow human beings
Unit 1: Terms : Short Story, Novel, Plot, Character, Setting, Narrative, Point of View, Bildungsroman, Picaresque, Epistolary, Stream of Consciousness, Novel of Social Reality, Psychological Novel and Historical Novel.
Unit 2: Novel : Jack London's Call of the Wild or R. K. Narayan's Man Eater of Malgudi
Unit 3: Short Stories Dorothy Parker "A Telephone Call" Oscar Wilde "Happy Prince" Washington Irving "Rip Van Winkle" Somerset Maugham "Luncheon" O'Henry "The Gift of the Magi" Gabriel Garcia Marquoz – “A very old man with Enormous wings : A Tale for Children.”
Unit 4 : Terms: Lyric, Dramatic Monologue, Sonnet, Ballad, Epic, Satire, Ode, Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, Melodrama, Chorus, Hamartia, Verse Drama
Unit 5 : Play: Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Ernest or Sophocles's Oedipus Rex
Unit 6 : Poems Nissim Ezekiel — "Soap" Sonnet: John Milton "On His Blindness" Dramatic Monologue: Robert Browning "My Last Duchess" Lyric: William Blake "Piping Down the Valleys Wild" Ballad: Walter Scott "Lochinvar" Ode: John Keats "Ode to Nightingale"